Christian Rowland writing for ODOGWU MEDIA...Former
US President Barack Obama personally urged Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg to counter the rise of fake news on the social network during
a meeting held shortly after last year’s election, the Washington Post
reported Sunday.

The encounter reportedly took
place on the sidelines of a meeting of global leaders in Lima, Peru on
November 19, two months before Trump’s inauguration and days after
Zuckerberg had dismissed as “crazy” the idea that misleading stories
driven by Russian operatives had made a major impact on the outcome of
the vote.

“Zuckerberg acknowledged the
problem posed by fake news. But he told Obama that those messages
weren’t widespread on Facebook and that there was no easy remedy,” the
newspaper said, quoting people it said had knowledge of the exchange.

The report comes days after
Facebook announced it would be handing over to Congress advertisements
it discovered were bought by Russia-linked fake accounts, aimed at
inflaming political tensions ahead of and following the election.